[109629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommendation of Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Wed Dec 3 04:09:20 2008
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:09:05 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0812030850580.1106@netcore.fi>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Pekka Savola wrote:
> FWIW, Mtr measures latency/delay and loss based on ICMP messages heard back
> from the routers on path. As a result, in almost all cases, the real
> hop-by-hop latency of actual end-to-end data packets is better than it can
> report.
mtr has a recently added '-u' option to use UDP instead of ICMP echo
requests.
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Antonio Querubin
whois: AQ7-ARIN
